Game of the Messenger

In this game the participants take turns playing the messenger delivering letters. The messenger chooses a character and then comes up with letters written by the character that he/she delivers to the other participants in the room. The content of the letter reveals who the recipient is. After everyone has received a letter, the messenger invents the replies as well, thus weaving a more intricate story of relationships and situations.

With the power of storytelling, we travel through layers of time and discover many famous and interesting characters who have chosen us to deliver their messages.  

We meet a lonely marquis seeking love, or at least a lucrative deal in marriage. Descartes writes to Merleau-Ponty and challenges him to debate their differing concepts of cognition. Merleau-Ponty in his good-natured manner agrees, as long as there will be a party with dancing. Royalty is brought in, for who else to better facilitate a good party.

Soon enough the drama intensifies. We are swept along a great big flood and meet children who have all lost their families under the most spectacular circumstances. We are invited to take an inside peek at the fashion related problems of the royalty - can there ever be too much lace? - and meet the most revered fashion influencer of the time, as well as her harshest critic: a seven-year old boy who doesn't like the shirt he has been made to wear for his birthday portrait.  

Finally we hear the overdramatic cry of a dying microphone who needs batteries replacing, and are thrown back into our everyday reality. The game is over, for now. But the stories told this day still live on.